Old news in some ways, but some middle east oil exporters are looking at importing coal so they can export more oil and gas.
We buy oil from there, why don't we just burn the coal ourselves?
How will Dion's carbon tax address this?
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/CM_147995.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3958606.ece

Doesn't your latest Ve number indicate a tossup between a Conservative minority and a Liberal minority? How does that square with what's happening in the real world?

How do you figure it's being thrown out? (Do you figure it's being thrown out?)

Is it just not capable of handling such a Liberal collapse (dorky Lib leader) and surging NDP?

Enquiring but not statistically trained minds want to know.

Oh here's a good reader tip. And here's another.

Christoph ~ Σ ΔVe/n indicates the average change in Ve in the columns shown to the right in the table row in which it appears. The actual values of Ve for each pollster for each day are the rightmost numbers in each cell in the table rows. As it stands, Sunday's results make a Conservative majority slightly less likely; at a minimum they are still in strong minority territory. Keep in mind that the daily tracking polls, as seen in yesterday's Ve Update graph, tend to bounce around quite a bit, especially Nanos. Everything will depend, obviously, on what happens between now and the election; just remember that trends happen over time. Tomorrow is another day.

What year was this song written !!??

Could almost make a guy turn religious. Or superstitious. Or paranoid.

(Chorus)

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free;
Take a load off Fannie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=712kRqri2No

What year was this song written !!??

Could almost make a guy turn religious. Or superstitious. Or paranoid.

(Chorus)

Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free;
Take a load off Fannie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.

YouTube; Take A Load Off Fannie

http://tinyurl.com/43bucd

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Hurricane-force winds ripped branches off trees in Nova Scotia Sunday night and torrential rains caused localized flooding as a vicious weather system hit the Maritimes.

SDA plagiarized in the comments:

J M from Calgaristan, Canada writes: Every time you drive your SUV, a Nova Scotian drowns. We are reaping what we have sown. It is really too bad that Alberta doesn't have these man made disasters to contend with as they might start to think about it. Just more proof that they don't care about the rest of Canada one iota.
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From the album "Music from Big Pink", by 'The Band', released in 1968.

1968 Ron...

2008 version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=712kRqri2No

...anyone else wondering about the Ukrainian ship that got hijacked off Samolia was a setup?

Happen to have a bunch of Russian tanks on board.

Thanks for the explanation, Vitruvius. I know what the symbols mean, so you'd think I'd have thought about it.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/009605.html#comments

from Sep 23 to Sep 29

the count down is about close to 70,000 per week enterance

now we have 33 million Canadina
when you say 40% Harper and conservative
said RUSH RUSH election to let majority of
power goes to Harper

how many so far vote if majority of people are not vote yet then you must prospond this vote to another two more month by Dec 14 to let parties talk and think more and we listen and participate to know more about them other wise it is too fishy to let this happend

why East of Canda is 23 million and west has 10 million whil west of Canda is nicer weathr than East of Canda we may need to move people from East to live in West among White English next to Mr. Harper house probably send 500,000Muslim from East to go and live in Alberta what do you think you conservative to balnace both side of country and we find new freind over there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we promise we do not fight consservative and you do not ask about prophet Mohamad's wives

Mysterious Deadly Cargo Killing Hijackers Of Iranian Ship

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/mysterious-deadly-cargo-killing.html

The pirates who hijacked the Iranian military cargo ship, which had last docked in China and was en-route to Rotterdam to deliver "industrial products" to a "German client", are dying, one by one.

To me, the symptoms reported being suffered by the pirates make me deduct that the cargo is radioactive. EXTREMELY radioactive. As if it were nuclear-weapons-grade material.

Britsh Conservatives Will Ban Sharia Law If Elected

Yes, in case you hadn't heard, thanks to the silent MSM, there IS Sharia Law in Britain. And the Sharia courts are already going outside their narrow Labour-legislated mandate, obviously intending to go as far as they please.

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/britsh-conservatives-will-ban-sharia.html

Excerpts from source:

A TOUGH package is being drawn up by David Cameron to tackle Islamic extremism. One of the key proposals is to ban sharia law courts from operating in this country.

(...)

Outlining the Tories’ wider plans for tackling Islamic extremism, she added: “We will be tough. We will be really tough on the men of violence and those who lead them to violence. That’s the real gap between us and the Government at the moment.”

She said the party would abandon the “blind alley of multiculturalism, which has deliberately gone down the road of separation for its own sake. We want unity and opportunity, despite difference, through integration.”

"Mysterious Deadly Cargo Killing Hijackers Of Iranian Ship"
I think I saw that movie. Seriously, if there was any chance of nuclear material aboard I'm sure the Americans would have known or have done a fly-by for a scan. If the radiation is enough to cause illness then it can be detected. I'm almost certain the Navy Seals have plans that involve hijacking a hijacked ship.

The Dionky Party: "But behind the women".

Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-That's all folks!*
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"Stephane a ladies' man"

"Liberal women including local candidates Martha Hall Findlay, Carolyn Bennett, Ruby Dhalla and Judy Sgro, were front and centre flanking Dion during his speech to a small crowd of about 250 supporters at the Courtyard Marriott.

But behind the women, it was an all-hands-on-deck of party superstars including Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy and Scott Brison."
(Sun)
(*H/T Porky Pig)

LAYTON ALERT!

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=846352&p=2

“What is most worrying is that [Layton's] intellectual incoherence does not appear to be just political theatre.”

After having admitted that Jack Layton is a “buffoon,” John Ivison in the National Post this morning goes on to catalogue the reasons why a vote for Jack Layton is a vote for an incoherent—and dangerous—platform.

Jack demonizes the corporate sector and seems to think, contra received international economist wisdom, that raising corporate taxes, while heaping financial benefits upon “working families,” is the way for Canada to go. Within a few years, Canada would become the North American Zimbabwe.

Ivison concludes: “But Jack clearly knows jack about competitiveness and, given he's now too popular to ignore, it means he's no longer harmless. Canadians should take note.”

Meanwhile here in Quebec Jean Charest is obviously moving toward calling an election this fall (groan!).

French networks (not to mention the CBC) continue to slant their newcasts so that the Conservatives are said to be Bush-loving, women-hating, arts cutting philistines (sigh)who want 14-year-olds to be raped (sigh).

The Michel Rivard of Beau Dommage YouTube video about a French supplicant for a song festival before a unilingual Conservative Ottawa board continues to make the rounds, even though it is racist and inaccurate (since when are any of these committees totally English staffed or at the minimum without simultaneous tranlsation).

Duceppe continues to propose raiding the coffers of Hydro Quebec to cut dependence on oil (read Alberta)by subsidizing households to switch to electricity, when taxpayers would be much better off having Hydro sell the electricity to Ontario or the States and returning most of the profits to the government (the price of electricity is quite low here for political reasons and fosters waste of electricity).

batb,

How dare John Ivison criticize Jack! Doesn't Ivison realize that if elected, Jack! will end poverty (and usher in world peace) within 12 years?

http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/508010

(Via SWJ) Sean D. Naylor, Spec ops raids into Pakistan halted

U.S. special operations forces have paused ground operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas, but military and civilian government officials differ over why the cross-border raids have been halted.

The issue of U.S. raids into the tribal areas was thrust into the international spotlight by a Sept. 3 raid in Angor Adda, in the South Waziristan tribal agency, by Navy SEALs working for a Joint Special Operations Command task force...

Spengler, US wealth in shrink mode

Leverage is the secret of American wealth. The average American family in 2004 had a net worth of US$448,000 on an income of $43,000, according to the Federal Reserve's survey of consumer wealth. Wealth equaled 10.4 years worth of income. In 1989, the Fed survey shows, it was only 7.3 years of income, and just 3.8 years worth in 1962. Measured in years, why should the ratio of Americans' net worth amount to annual income have tripled between the administrations of John F Kennedy and George W Bush?

Here's a must read and post for all today from the Globe & Mail: "Global economic crisis no time to bring in minority government" by Gwyn Morgan.

For anyone who wishes to go back in recent memory to the HRC fiasco this is a must red from today's Toronto Sun, a Column/Comment by Salim Mansur:" NDP opportunism betrays Canada".
Just another little reminder of just exactly how dangerous NDP ideology is to our country. Sucking up to Islamists for votes is far over the line.

Further to my 10:49 AM comment, Mohamed Elmasry is supporting the NDP. Go figure!

I think the media is missing the boat on Stephen Harper the person. The Citizen today had a pathetic attack attempting to draw parallels between Harper and Sarah Palin (clearly intended to malign). There was also a cynical recounting of "noise makers" at the high school reunion Harper attended. Here is a more detailed (and I think informative) account of people's views at Harper's reunion: http://tinyurl.com/4yee44

Just wanted to thank you for putting up Pictures at an Exhibition a few weeks ago. I hadn't listened to it for quite a while, even though I have a CD of it with both the original solo piano version and an orchestrated version. Thanks for reminding me of what great music it is.

Updated

Atlantic Canada-9/31 seats. 1 NL, 2 NS, 5 NB, 1 PEI (no change from 2006)
NWT, Yukon, Nunavit- 1/3 seats (1 seat gain from 2006)
QUE- 20/75 seats (10 seat gain)
ON- 54/105 seats (13 seat gain)
Prairies- 50/56 seats (4 seat gain)
BC- 24/36 seats (5 seat gain)
Majority 155/308
CPC- 158/308 41% (+4%)
LPC- 61/308 24% (-3%)
NDP- 48/308 20% (+1%)
Bloc- 40/309 9% (+1%)
Ind- 1/308 .1% (0)
Green- 0/308 6% (-2%)
undecided 18% (2% gain)

Support shifted from QUE to ON in seats. Release of CPC platform this week will see bump in support initially. Still depends on voting day moment where 18% of undecideds and many Quebec voters see the CPC. ON is onside with the CPC.

new

You have a lot to say but you have nothing to say.

Newsbusters scoffs at CBC:

"Yeah, a "narrow range." CBCNews.ca has a range from bomb-throwing Stalinist, to pseudo intellectual Marxists..."
...-

"State Run Canadian Media Corp. Apologizes for Palin-Smearing Article"

"Mr. Carlin also noted that CBCNews.ca displays a "very narrow range" on its web pages and the broadcaster is addressing that by expanding the diversity of its writers and opinions, Mr. Cruickshank added.

Yeah, a "narrow range." CBCNews.ca has a range from bomb-throwing Stalinist, to pseudo intellectual Marxists... but, you now. It is a bit hard to believe that they will really change anything, but you know what they say: admitting your addiction is the first step to a cure.

In any case, the CBC is announcing that change is in the wind. And I say, we'll see."
http://tinyurl.com/3tyauw

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/mystery_surrounds_hi.php

Mystery surrounds hijacked Iranian ship

Cargo likely military/chemical...

Whats up with National NewsWatch
This account has exceeded its CPU quota.
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Latest Dionkyism from Citoyen Dionky.
The "reporters", aka MSM are laughing at him.
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"'Canadians want to know me,' says Dion

"OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion portrayed himself today as the rookie candidate who is going through intense preparation this week in the lead-up to the crucial campaign debates.

"I need to be ready because Canadians want to know me," said Mr. Dion."

"When asked how he is preparing for the debates, Mr. Dion said that “you train yourself with some friends that pretend to be Harper or Layton,” which was met with laughter by reporters."
http://tinyurl.com/53uyke (g-m)

"Customers wait outside a bank in Harare, Zimbabwe Friday, Sept. 26 2008. Zimbabwe is allowing trade in U.S. dollars and South African rand in what is seen as tacit acknowledgment that its own currency has collapsed."
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"Zimbabweans overwhelm banks seeking cash

HARARE, Zimbabwe Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans lined up at banks Monday, desperate to take out their money after the government raised the limit on daily withdrawals.

New rules went into affect Monday allowing withdrawals of up to 20,000 Zimbabwe dollars (US$35; euro25). The old 1,000 Zimbabwean-dollar limit was barely enough to buy a newspaper.

The limit and the fact that Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world - officially at 11 million percent, unofficially much higher - has meant long lines at banks most days."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/221357.html

New,was your last line another veiled threat? The flipside of what you wrote is that if we tell the truth about the pedophile prophet you will fight us or did I just miss your subtle humour?

Michael J. Totten, The War Won't End in Afghanistan

Senator Barack Obama said something at the presidential debate last week that almost perfectly encapsulates the difference between his foreign policy and his opponent’s: “Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself acknowledges the war on terrorism started in Afghanistan and it needs to end there.” I don’t know if Obama paraphrased Gates correctly, but if so, they’re both wrong.

If Afghanistan were miraculously transformed into the Switzerland of Central Asia, every last one of the Middle East’s rogues gallery of terrorist groups would still exist. The ideology that spawned them would endure. Their grievances, such as they are, would not be salved. The political culture that produced them, and continues to produce more just like them, would hardly be scathed. Al Qaedism is the most radical wing of an extreme movement which was born in the Middle East and exists now in many parts of the world. Afghanistan is not the root or the source...

(PDF warning) Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, China’s New Undersea Nuclear Deterrent: Strategy, Doctrine, and Capabilities

Over the past few years, Western strategic thinkers have debated what China’s emerging force of fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) portends for Beijing’s overall nuclear strategy. One influential school of thought assumes that the rudimentary landbased missile force that has served Beijing’s needs in the past will continue to do so. Others dispute this static model... They predict that China will soon put to sea an SSBN fleet more symmetrical with the U.S. Navy in terms of both quality and quantity. Moreover, it will abandon its traditional stance of “minimum deterrence,” assuming a more assertive nuclear posture better described as “limited deterrence.”

We take issue with both of these projections of Chinese nuclear strategy, doctrine, and undersea capabilities...

Charles,

Al Qaeda isn't the root, or source either. The Sunnah, complete with Mohammad's supremacist and criminal political ideology are the root and source.

"GE Signs Multi-Billion Iraq Deal: Time for NBC to Declare 'Civil War' Over?

On the November 27, 2006 edition of Today, as noted here, Matt Lauer portentously declared:

After careful consideration, NBC News has decided the change in terminology is warranted and what is going on in Iraq can now be characterized as civil war.

On that evening's Countdown, Keith Olbermann chimed in, suggesting that NBC's pronouncement was comparable to Walter Cronkite's 1968 declaration that the Vietnam War was lost.

Although NBC, without fanfare, stopped using the "civil war" term sometime beginning in September, 2007, it has never--despite the success of the surge and the marked decrease in sectarian violence--declared the civil war over. Could today be the day? NBC's parent company, General Electric, has signed a deal with Iraq worth billions of dollars to it and Siemens for the provision of electric generation equipment.

So, what is it? Is GE venturing into a civil-war zone, or has the time, finally, come for NBC to admit the civil war is over?"
http://tinyurl.com/3t4c6j (newsbusters)

Ontario Liberals have pinned Dionky's tail to the floor. Hee-Hawful.
It'snot fair.

Ontario Liberals are the Neo-Puffins: sdkffkeg on Citoyen Dionky and his Green Shift.
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"But this is the first time that Mr. Dion's Liberal cousins at the Ontario legislature have publicly criticized his plan to combat greenhouse gas emissions."

"In the meantime, Mr. Duncan was sharply critical of federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's “green shift” plan that would tax carbon emissions to encourage more environmental behaviour and return the revenue in the form of tax cuts.

“One of the things that I think that would be a mistake right now is massive shifts in tax burden at a time when there's uncertainty,” he said."
http://tinyurl.com/3p9yt6 (G-M)

First commenter says:

"There it is boys and girls.
Ontario votes CPC.

This election is over."

Heeeeee's back! Mr. Dithers, aka Ad$Cam MartinJr, Cap'n CSL, ex-Liberal PM PM, Jr.
Photos goody.
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"Some Liberals are reaching way back for credibility

What do you do when you feel your leader is dragging you down in an election campaign?

You might pine for a leader from the past.

But some MPs are made of sterner stuff than that! They don't just pine for the good old days. They do something about it!

Meet Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis, part of Paul Martin's team!

Someone sent me these photos today:
http://stevejanke.com/archives/274462.php
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More:http://www.civitatensis.ca/archives/2008/09/29/2351

Hard core porn, Islamic style. My favorite line : "at the most, she should be flogged". Ah, the wisdom of the learned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flz0dwhfujY